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Overview

Mercantile Bancorp, Inc.

Mercantile Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, is a community bank holding company formed in 1983 to bring together the resources of proven community banks in order to provide its markets the very best financial products, services, and technologies combined with superior community bank service.

Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. is comprised of seven majority-owned subsidiaries consisting of three banks in Illinois, two banks in Missouri and one bank in each of Kansas and Florida. Mercantile offers a full range of commercial and consumer banking products and services, and has a thriving business in trust services, asset management, and financial services such as brokerage capabilities. Mercantile also has minority investments in ten community banks in Missouri, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, California, North Carolina and Tennessee.

At December 31, 2007, the company managed total assets in excess of $1.6 billion and total deposits over $1.3 billion. The company's affiliate banks collectively offer everything from a full line of FDIC-insured deposit services including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts, to a complete line of lending services: consumer loans, credit cards, mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, and commercial and agricultural loans and lines of credit. Additional services include asset management services: trusts, estate planning, investment services and farm management; and a complete line of convenience banking channels: four full-service in-store locations, multiple online and phone banking centers and a growing regional ATM network with 35 outlets in 17 communities.

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